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r/newjersey

New Jersey. News, discussion, and current events for the state of New Jersey Founded 2008 · 518.5K members

519.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 67.1K upvotes, which works out to 129 per 1,000 members.

129peak upvotes per 1,000 members
519.6Kmembers
67.1Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
414posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

28% 25% 23% 14%
Image 28% Link 25% Text 23% Question 14% Gallery 6% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice 88 Events 32 NJ Politics 26 Jersey Pride 25 📰News 24 Central Jersey 18 Photo 14 Interesting 12 NJ Eats 11 WTF 10

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Fuck this guy. X links are now banned from r/newjersey

↑ 67.1K 💬 2.4K image 2025

This is my senator. He refused to be bought out and is fighting to keep Net Neutrality

↑ 66.3K 💬 720 image 2017

The 5 New Jersey Congressmen who sold you out to ISPs for as low as $6,000 and as high as $55,000.

↑ 59.8K 💬 722 image 2017

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality! Don't let the FCC destroy the internet!

↑ 32.7K 💬 98 link 2017

Ukraine and NJ love

↑ 23.4K 💬 391 image 2022

Democrat Mikie Sherrill defeats Republican Jack Ciattarelli and is elected the 57th governor of the great state of New Jersey

↑ 14.5K 💬 978 link 2025

Phil Murphy has been elected as New Jersey's 56th governor

↑ 12.3K 💬 1.7K link 2017

We did it boys.

↑ 11.8K 💬 891 image 2021

Here we are at the beach in the deep southern state of...New Jersey?

↑ 9.8K 💬 1.4K image 2022

What $315,000 buys...

↑ 9.5K 💬 1.2K image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/newjersey, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/newjersey?
r/newjersey ("New Jersey") describes itself this way: News, discussion, and current events for the state of New Jersey. It was founded in 2008 and has 518.5K members.
How many members does r/newjersey have?
r/newjersey has about 519.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 414 of its posts; the biggest reached 67.1K upvotes, which is 129 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/newjersey?
"Fuck this guy. X links are now banned from r/newjersey" reached 67.1K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/newjersey.
What subreddits are similar to r/newjersey?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/newjersey?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are image posts and 25% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/newjersey?
Across 414 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (17.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (16.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 23:00 UTC (7.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/newjersey?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/newjersey has 6.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/newjersey, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.